The question was asked of Attorney Mark O’Mara at last night’s post-verdict news conference: Would this case have been different if the races involved were different? The question was asked at minute 13:18 by a reporter for the LA Times. Here’s what O’Mara said,

I think things would have been different if George ZImmerman was black for this reason: he never would have been charged with a crime. 

What happened was that this became a focus for a civil rights event which again is a wonderful event to have but they decided that George Zimmerman would be the person who they were to blame and sort of use as the creation as a civil rights violation, none of which was born out by the facts of that night.

…If only those who decided to condemn Mr. Zimmerman as quickly and viciously as they did would have taken just a little bit of time to find out who it was that they were condemning, it would never have happened. And it certainly wouldn’t have happened if he was black because those people who decided that they were going to make him the scapegoat would not have.